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Janie Van Komen · Joined: 01 Jan 2005 Posts: 278

My kids bought one of those tiny remote cars made in China. The instructions had several wrong words and letters in words, however, one of the instructions stated: Please do not wet the cat.

We have been using that phrase as a catch-all for lots of things ever since.

T. Lynn Adams · Joined: 28 Apr 2004 Posts: 1579 Location: Montana

Just in time for the summer season! The local swimming pool has published their list of pool rules for the 2006 summer season. They are posted all over town, including this one rule: "Suits are required on deck."

T. Lynn
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T. Lynn Adams · Joined: 28 Apr 2004 Posts: 1579 Location: Montana

The bane of working in the newspaper business is that you see all the newspaper mistakes!

A quarter page ad in this week's paper is repeated in the 1/4 page space right next to it. Two identical LARGE ads, side-by-side. My 16-year-old found it, showed it to me and asked, "So, is this a find-the-ten-differences type of ad?"

Also, a press release that I did NOT write, (about an author and his new epic book no less) said, "Few Americans remember World War II. Most Americans have been born since World War I and no Americans were alive during the Civil War."

Okay.... Cool

That changes all the Civil War statistics I've ever heard.

T. Lynn
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Tombs of Terror, YA adventure fiction
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My LDS Thoughts http://myldsthoughts.blogspot.com/

"The greatest books have yet to be written, the greatest inventions have yet to be made." -Rex R. Reeve

T. Lynn Adams · Joined: 28 Apr 2004 Posts: 1579 Location: Montana

Gotta a new one this morning: "Bush has Two Moles Removed from Temple."

The Mormon in me had to read this one twice. Cool

T. Lynn
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Tombs of Terror, YA adventure fiction
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My LDS Thoughts http://myldsthoughts.blogspot.com/

"The greatest books have yet to be written, the greatest inventions have yet to be made." -Rex R. Reeve

T. Lynn Adams · Joined: 28 Apr 2004 Posts: 1579 Location: Montana

Okay, this isn't a headline but I laughed outloud when I read it on a national sleep disorder site.

"People with sleep apnea syndrome have a higher risk of death than the normal population."

Doesn't the 'normal population' already have a 100% chance of death anyway? Cool

T. Lynn
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Tombs of Terror, YA adventure fiction
Author's Website: http://tlynnadams.blogspot.com/

My LDS Thoughts http://myldsthoughts.blogspot.com/

"The greatest books have yet to be written, the greatest inventions have yet to be made." -Rex R. Reeve

Paul West · Joined: 15 Apr 2004 Posts: 614 Location: West Jordan, Utah

Good one.
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Gary McCallister · Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 1:05 pm Post subject:

I must comment. I continuously read about "saved lives". No one has ever saved a life. They have only postponed death. However, I have learned that most people do not really want to hear that detail, especially doctors.
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sachiko · Joined: 19 Mar 2009 Posts: 891 Location: Kennewick, WA

...Unless they're doctors on a TV medidrama and need to have a well-coiffed existential brood.

I was in the ER a week and a half ago and for some reason the show they had playing on the TVs was some USA series about a guy who has cancer and the doctors weren't telling him anything. Oh, yes, thanks, just the sort of cheery food-for-thought you need when huddled in an ER plastichair wondering where the pain's coming from.

(darn medidramas)
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sachiko · Joined: 19 Mar 2009 Posts: 891 Location: Kennewick, WA

My favorite headlines are the run-of-the-mill New Scientific Study Proves! headlines where some scientist somewhere conducts a rigorous double-blind study or whatever to prove something that everyone already knows.

Like,

"University of Utah researchers find that children seem to like being fed fresh-baked cookies. Scientists say it's still too early to tell whether a love for fresh-baked cookies may or may not lead to an increased interest in cold milk."

I love those studies. I think of them as Duh-dies.
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